We didn't have plans to for anything else this weekend and were both itching to go somewhere and Utah sounded like a good idea. We left Saturday morning at 5 and were there by lunch time. We stopped and Jon and Amy's first and had lunch with them, then headed to Ogden. We didn't plan very well and thought that the two families lived a lot closer to each other, in actuality the live about 1.5 hrs apart. We ended up staying both Saturday and Sunday nights with Chris. We were planning on staying at the base hotel but Chris insisted.
Saturday night we went to work with Chris and I got to go into the Armory and see lots of guns. I was amazed at the weight of them! The M4, M16, M249 (standard machine gun) and the M240 bravo. The M240 is the gun that replaced the gun (the M60) in the Rambo movies. This gun weighs 27 lbs! I couldn't hold it up to shoot it. Yes I could pick it up but to actually hold it in proper position to shoot... No Way! I can't imagine trying to run around with this thing! Just holding it shows you that the movies are a little unrealistic. Even the M249 was heavy and I wouldn't want to run around with it either but not quite as bad as the M240. Not many civilians get to check out the armory, I felt pretty special. (Lilly slept through the entire thing :-) )
Sunday we went to Cabela's with Chris and Treasa and then to Ikea and had a great steak dinner that night.
Monday, we headed back south, to Jon and Amy's. We had a great breakfast with them and Mike helped Jon with the car. Then back home it was.
Lilly was great the entire weekend, sleeping 7 hours straight both nights! I wish she did that here but no such luck. We forgot to take pictures unfortunately, but we are going to try and make it back up there before we move.
We had a really good time and are thankful for friends that live close enough to get us out of Vegas for the weekend, this is something we will miss when in Alaska.
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